2009: The year of Climate Change?
Sweeping away years of Bush intransigence, the arrival of Barack Obama in the Whitehouse has given new life to action on climate change. Unfortunately, however, many of the political difficulties that previously shaped the US position remain very much in place. –Tony Juniper In a piece for the British Independent entitled ‘Review of the Year 2009: Climate change – The heat of the moment’, Tony Juniper, a well known U.K. environmentalist and General Election candidate for the Green Party, sums up the year in environmental terms. Juniper names COP15/Copenhagen, the loss of the honeybees (aka Colony Collapse Disorder) the reentry…
